All Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes
- Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity. Born
- I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart. Better
- Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. Destroyed
- Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. Ears
- Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. Any
- Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone. Form
- Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners… Abstinence
- Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. Architecture
- Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we… Accountability
- A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. Approximate
- I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh. Body
- Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do. Beautiful
- It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love. Bobby
- I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God. Always Felt
- I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex. Complex
- Fate has blessed me. Blessed
- It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider… Audience
- Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group. All
- I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music. Content
- I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance. Chair